可视化通常是简化信息和帮助人们理解复杂数据的一种方式。在本文中，我们描述了电子表格公式（EQUS）交互式可视化的设计，开发和评估。这项工作是合理的，理由是这些工具被广泛用于重要的数值处理和建模工具，但是开发的公式很容易被误解。开发过程是迭代改进之一，该过程吸引了青少年学习的初始目标受众，涉及重新设计和形成性评估。已经发现，最终的可视化技术与电子表格用户广泛相关，超出了最初的目标受众。此后，EQUS已被开发为MS Excel的完全集成的插件。

原文标题：EQUS -- helping to see formulae

原文：Visualisation is often presented as a means of simplifying information and helping people understand complex data. In this paper we describe the design, development and evaluation of an interactive visualisation for spreadsheet formulae (EQUS). The work is justified on the grounds that these are widely used tools for significant numerical processing and modeling, yet the formula developed can be easily misunderstood. The development process was one of iterative refinement engaging an initial target audience of mid-teen learners, involving re-design and formative evaluation. The resulting visualisation techniques have been found to be broadly relevant to spreadsheet users beyond the initial target audience. EQUS has since been developed as fully integrated plug-in for MS Excel.

原文作者：Chris Roast

原文地址：https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00003